Evelyn M. Witkin

Evelyn Maisel Witkin (9 March 1921-) was an American geneticist who was awarded the National Medal of Science for her work on DNA mutagenesis and DNA repair.

Biography
Evelyn Maisel was born in New York City in 1921, and she began to work at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1944. From 1955 to 1971, she worked at SUNY's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, and she became a professor at Rutgers in 1971. She completed her PhD with research on mutagenesis, and she continued to work on the mechanism of the SOS response until she retired in 1991. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977 and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2002.